Maryland at Big Ten Outdoor Championships
May 10th-12, 2024
Ann Arbor, MI
12:00 PM (10th), 9:30 A.M. (11th), 11:00 A.M. (12th)
COLLEGE PARK, MD – The Maryland track and field team will head out to Ann Arbor, Michigan this weekend for the start of championship season, competing in the Big Ten Outdoor Championships
Last Time Out (Kehoe Twilight Meet)
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Two school records were broken at the Terps’s last home meet of the season, with Eric Albright breaking the the men’s 800m record, and Andrew Harmon breaking the men’s hammer throw record
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Morgan Graham and Anna Coffin both moved into third place in school history in their events, with Graham doing it in the women’s discus, and Coffin in the women’s 1500m
- Kevin Collins broke his tie for seventh place all-time in the men’s 100m, and now holds the spot alone
- Kayla Thorpe entered the women’s shot put record book, etching her name in ninth place all-time
The newcomers and the veterans
- The Terps return several stellar student-athletes from last year’s team, including senior Jeff Kline. Kline, a Blandon, PA native, not only competed at NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last season, but also competed at USATF Indoor Championships last February, going up against some of the best shot-putters in the country.
- Sophomores Tolu Akinduro and Rhys Allen are also back for their second season as Terps following a summer in which they both competed in domestic championships. Akinduro competed for Canada at the U20 Pan-American games in the triple jump, while Allen competed for Great Britain at the U20 European Championships in the discus.
- The Terps also welcome a strong freshman class, highlighted by high-jumper Jennessa Wolfe. The Nova Scotia native competed alongside Akinduro at the U20 Pan-American games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where she won the gold medal in the women’s high jump with a jump that cleared 1.71m, which also would have placed her in the top-10 of last year’s Big Ten Outdoor Championships. Read more about Wolfe’s journey to College Park here.
Last Year at the big ten outdoor championships
- Kayla Thorpe broke her own school record in the women’s javelin
- Eric Albright qualified for the men’s 800m finals and finished in seventh place
- Tolu Akinduro broke into the record books in the…
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